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| WASHINGTON,
April 23 (Xinhua) -- U.S. intelligence authorities have informed the White
House that the audiotape attributed to al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden was
authentic, White House spokesman Scott McClellan said on
Sunday. |
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| Al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden
(AFP/File) | CAIRO, April
23 (Xinhua) -- Al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden has spoken about the Palestinian
Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) and Sudan's Darfur crisis in an audio tape
aired by the pan-Arabal-Jazeera TV channel on Sunday.
Bin Laden said that the West's fund cut to the
Hamas-led government proved it was at war with Islam; adding Sudan's Darfur
crisis also resulted from "crusader war."
He said the Western public share responsibility for
their countries' war against Islam, claiming "the war goes on and the people are
renewing their allegiance to their rulers and masters."
"They send their sons to armies to fight us and they
continue their financial and moral support while our countries are burned and
our houses bombed and our people killed," he said. But, the authenticity of the
tape could not be verified.
The Saudi-born militant appeared in an audio tape in
December 2004, in which he appointed Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, Iraq's most wanted
man, as al-Qaida's leader in the country. Enditem |
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